DX Engineering RT4500HD Heavy Duty Rotator

The Ultimate Portable Ham Radio Computer

November 04, 2021 No comments

Hello Operators. In this episode of the OH8STN ham radio, we are discussing replacing the raspberry pi field computer build, with the Microsoft Surfac... Read more

Get Started with FT8 – An Introduction for Beginners

November 04, 2021 No comments

FT8 is a mode in the WSJT-X software developed by Dr Joe Taylor K1JT. In this video I show how to get started and make contacts with FT8, introduction... Read more

WSJT-X Version 2.5.1 has been Released

October 28, 2021 No comments

The WSJT-X development team has announced the general availability release of WSJT-X version 2.5.1. This release mainly contains i... Read more

Virtual Reality For Ham Radio With Oculus Quest 2

January 18, 2022 No comments

Virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Quest 2 has the capability of remoting into your ham shack computer for remote control of any application on... Read more

MOSFET – The Most significant invention of the 20th Century

January 17, 2022 No comments

What makes a truly world-changing invention?. Of all the inventions of the 20th century just one could be said to have changed the world in such a way... Read more

The only five things you need (for portable operation)

January 13, 2022 No comments

Stop buying equipment, you only need these five things to have a successful ham radio portable operation. Read more

How to Extend Radio Range Without Adding a Repeater?

January 08, 2015 No comments

How to Extend Radio Range Without Adding a Repeater? When there’s a need to extend the coverage of handheld two-way radios, the first option is usuall... Read more

BCH-220 Handheld Radio

July 16, 2015 No comments

BCH-220 Handheld Radio Introducing the new BCH-220 Handheld Radio for 1.25m 220 MHz. It’s just what you need in a 220 MHz portable. The BCH-220... Read more

3D Hologram Hytera DMR Radio Demo

August 18, 2016 No comments

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Force 12 FPA-20-OCF Vertical running through 8 to 6 meters

June 05, 2016 No comments

Does your neighborhood forbid antennas but allow flagpoles? Is tearing up your lawn to lay 64 radials not an option? Or maybe you just want a high-per... Read more

Building the BuddiHex Hexbeam | Best Portable Ham Radio Antenna

September 28, 2021 No comments

Today I go through all of the steps and pieces for building the BuddiHex Hexbeam antenna from Buddpole. This might be the best portable ham radio ante... Read more

Grounding a Counterpoise on End-Fed Half Wave Antenna

August 09, 2021 No comments

Laurence, WA2TLY, is asking some questions about a few aspects of the EFHW 80-10 antenna, Why they are there and what they are for? Read more

New iOS App Available for The ARRL Repeater Directory ®

April 11, 2015 No comments

  The ARRL Repeater Directory ® — introduced this week for 2015-2016 — has a newly launched companion app for Apple® iOS® devices. iPhone®, iPad®... Read more

RFinder – The World Wide Repeater Directory now has Jamming Reports!

April 27, 2016 No comments

RFinder now includes the ability to make jamming reports. This is already available in RFinder Android and should be available on iOS devices by Dayto... Read more

Real-time Radio Spectrum Map Database Demo [ Android App ]

October 13, 2021 No comments

In view of the escalating demand for higher mobile data (from IoT, industry 4.0 applications), there is a growing world-wide interest to improve the r... Read more

DX Alert App ( Mobile )

October 20, 2015 No comments

DX Alert App Instead of being connected to a DX cluster directly you can use DX Alert to monitor the cluster for you and get notifications on your pho... Read more

HF Beam Antenna Calculator for Iphone and Ipad

January 06, 2015 No comments

  Antenna Calculator The Maidenhead & HF Beam Antenna is a useful utility to calculate the the Maidenhead LOCATION as well as HF Elements’ s... Read more